Since you seem to be completely sure of this, can you explain the inductive reasoning as to how you arrived to these natural rights? First of all, pardon my ignorance, I don't even know what they are, so it will be nice you could list them in a clear, concise, and concrete manner. Secondly, I have ...

As for the "adversarial parliament" I don't think lack of adversarial-ness... adversarial-ity... adver-cereal... conflict is a problem is the US legislature. It might well be. Consider the role of PMQ's (Prime Minister's Questions) in the Commons and UK politics as a whole - not only does...

Rights describe fundamental obligations of the state to an Individual; to say that x's right y has been violated, is to say that the State has in some way neglected its obligation to that person. Now, is it really true to say that State of Saudi Arabia has an obligation to afford its women equal tre...

By that logic, there's no such as Negative rights. "My body is my own, the government should act to exclude others from it, and let me do with it as I please". I feel the distinction to be an exceedingly poor one, yes. What exactly is your point? Negative rights are things that shouldn't ...

... hence believe that it is possible to violate rights in more ways than mere theft. Correct, agree. What fundamental right is violated thought by not providing education? Where does that right come from? The point is socialist ideas lead to "I want something"; "I convince the gover...

... hence believe that it is possible to violate rights in more ways than mere theft. Correct, agree. What fundamental right is violated thought by not providing education? Where does that right come from? The point is socialist ideas lead to "I want something"; "I convince the gover...

Ormurinn seems to veer more and more to outright (rather than merely implicit) absurd. Namely the sorts of thinking that believes our enslavement to come from the powers of capitalisation . His mother would have had to rely on her local community supporting her, or on charity, though the labour mark...

If we don't actually work on solving the root causes of violence (e.g. we need to work on reducing poverty, fixing social issues, improving quality of life, reducing crime, reducing unemployment, reducing stress, improving treatment and diagnoses of mental illness), then the homicide rate won't act...

While that is certainly interpreted in many ways, the fact that it is in the constitution is justification enough. This is perhaps the single greatest fallacy alive in American politics but also the country generally today. The Founding Fathers were not demi/gods who alone knew what Americans true ...

A global super-rich elite has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary £13 trillion ($21tn) of wealth offshore – as much as the American and Japanese GDPs put together – according to research commissioned by the campaign group Tax Justice Network. James Henry, former chief ...

But see, people are using "it's a natural right" as if it means "it's trivial". So every time it's brought up the conversation devolves into "shut up it's natural right" "no it's not you shut up" "yeah uh" "nah uh".... I just don't think i...

Yeah, but... More about latest episode: I can't figure out what Tarlok was possibly trying to achieve by capturing Korra. Ok, he used bloodbending on her in a moment of panic... so why not just kill her and blame the Equalists? What was he planning to do with her? Why did he assume a simple meta...

Me. I'm going to buy that. Me. The big difference here is that if I buy from Joe regularly, he has a job which provides him an income, while if I do not buy from Joe, he is unemployed. In an ideal world, Joe might be able to get a job assembling Chevy Tahoes instead of farming if he was better at t...

Consider whether an American has the negative or positive freedom or the to go on holiday to the Bahamas? They are free to do so, say believers in negative freedom, as there is no law preventing an American going on holidays to the Bahamas. They are not, says the supporters of positive freedom, as ...

1. (negative) liberty is intrinsically and absolutely valuable: Liberty is a great thing in and of itself. In fact, it's the best thing. When it conflicts with other social values like utility (utilitarianism) or equality (egalitarianism), liberty always trumps them. Because liberty is inherently s...

While I'm still enjoying the series - it's losing more and more of my interest. Partly because of the characters, who I just (aside from Lin ^^) developed or interesting at the moment; though that's something I'm willing to overlook and push aside given a broadly similar situation at the start of TL...

Strictly speaking, the Crown Estate prior to becoming Crown Estate (upon the ascension of each new Monarch) is technically the private property of that Monarch. Indeed, these aren't lands that were held by virtue of them being the Monarchs in the these of olde (as it were) but rather personal proper...

Am I the only one who feels Bending is underpowered in the TLK? Mostly I've taken it to be Korra's inexperience/too headstrong attack style and the constraints of Pro-Bending but after watching the last episode it seems to be equally true of even very skilled Benders like Topin and Lin Beifong. Whil...

[edit]How the hell did I misread Honduras as Haiti? This post should probably be ignored. Interesting idea, but I see a thin line between this an colonialism. Given the disaster that post-colonial Haiti had been, wouldn't that a good thing? [spoiler]Because after you break something, clearly th...

Ireland has this system. Entrance to the Universities, Colleges and other 3rd-level institutions is orchestrated by the CAO (Central Applications Office) who set a given number of points (out of 600) that must be reached to matriculate into a given course. The points are determined by sitting the Le...

How is this present deficit/debt blame roulette relevant to a comment on Keynesianism? The thing people seem to realise is that "Keynesian Economics" is not equivalent to "More Government Spending" or, as the more careless (though still frequent) Strawman suggest, "National ...

Politicians are always more likely to stimulate the economy during election years, and not just from everyone working on the campaigns. When the stimulus ends, the jobs soon do as well. Really need citation for that? Cynical Suspicion of Government justifies all the claims! As long as you draw reas...

I make no claims the Religion is good or bad, period. Religion is a social device created by us, we the people. Government and Law must act from Authority, God is it, or was. My claim is that Critical Thinking doesn't work on it. Good doesn't advance Civilization. My knowledge of Chinese history is...

If you're really that paranoid about kids sleeping together, separate sleeping arrangements has generally been the common practice worldwide where mixed national organisations are the norm. Indeed, I'm rather opposed to single-sex groups for the sort of essentialist and gender tosh they propagate i...

Name a social force that gave stability other than Religion. I'm not saying that Religion handed the world whole cloth, but it was the force that was always there. It all gets bound up in the idea that authority has to come from somewhere. And God was it. The State. Hobbes old maximum is backed up ...

I really see no reason for these organizations to be separate, except bigotry. And I don't think they are in other countries, are they? It's just so 19th century, separating boys and girls. This makes sense before puberty, but there is a strong practical concern with taking male and female teenager...

I think it's probably more accurate to talk of "income groups" rather than classes in most countries at this point. The whole focus of class systems was that they weren't about money, or rather, that they weren't solely about money but rather the social perceptions built around them. For i...

What world is to replace that of the Pax Americana? Given the alternatives, a poor one. Certianly, the U.S. has rarely been fervently liberal but it has never been decidedly illiberal, it's hegemony although greatly imperfect has always proved better than the alternative (Nazis, Soviets, what-have-y...

I saw that they are more common here than in the UK, I was more wondering why that might be, and why they feel so strongly about the issue. It seems to me the best possible outcome that would please the most people is to offer a state funeral and then have her decline it. They honor the former PM, ...

I'm not aware that he ever said those were synonymous. Denouncing the principles of Christianity and the fundamentalists who follow them is not a denunciation of all Christians. Of course he never outright said it. But he continually stated that believing in God was an affirmation of the things tha...

All words are made up words. To insist that people use your personally accepted versions is childish, anyway. It's like people having a hissy fit over McDonald's "drive-thru" making it into the lexicon. Except that " irregardless " would literally mean the opposite of what the p...

Great Hippo, you said you'd no problems with an act that had no lasting consequence. So, some form of drugged rape scenarios are fine by you? I mean that's not far-fetched, it's a common enough occurrence. Oh, for fuck's sake. Do we seriously have to keep going here? My opposition to evil is not ba...

Great Hippo, you said you'd no problems with an act that had no lasting consequence. So, some form of drugged rape scenarios are fine by you? I mean that's not far-fetched, it's a common enough occurrence. The mere non incidence of a bad effect for the individual doesn't remove the moral element; a ...

Interesting topic... did you know that Ireland voluntarily bankrupted their nation, when they had the opportunity to easily dodge the banking crisis? Crazy ass Irish people. Do you mean the Government Guarantee of all Assets, including all bond categories? It was something of a snap decision made a...

Sitting here on the verge of ripping myself apart in frustration due to game troubles. I'm running the game on PC and it won't open in anything but a very small window. Any changes I attempt to make in Options on the Launcher automatically reset. I'd greatly appreciate any assistance or advice! Sou...

Sitting here on the verge of ripping myself apart in frustration due to game troubles. I'm running the game on PC and it won't open in anything but a very small window. Any changes I attempt to make in Options on the Launcher automatically reset.

You can almost troll Anti-Abortion'ers with honest statements of opinion. "I don't object to giving a foetus the same Rights as a person - they should", "Really?!", "Yeah, just not Rights over another person..."

If, at the end of the day, you do not have more than you started with, it was not good for the economy. I think you mean, it was not good for you. I meant "you" as in "the grand overseer of the economy" sense. ...so if I go out today and pay someone to cut my hair then it's bad ...